Monday, February 18, 2008

Ivan

A character design/illustration for an audio book called "Ivan the Not So Terrible" written by author, musician, legal mind Rich Stim. Was fun to lay textures over simplified volumes. Tried to keep a lid on the color in order to help define the character.

I like it. You gave it a much more simplified look than the ones you've shown so far, yet it still has a realistic feel to it. I really want to give acrylics the "old college try" now... and by that I mean try it on my college's dollars.

This is going to sound stupid but which scanner/camera do you use? Mine doesn't even absorb the pencil doodles I do properly. Or are the colours of the actual even more lucious and this is a brighter version?

... Sorry about double-posting, but I mean, is the actual picture done with a lot more colour - which is lost when scanned - or do you use a specific camera/scanner which manages to capture the actual picture properly?

I’ve actually seen the cover and it looks the same, so I'm guessing he has a nice scanner. Besides even If the scanner faded some of the color it could easily be revered with Photoshop, or something similar.

Thanks to the Ron gilbert blog I found this, and I just want to say that you are a true inspiration, Mr. Purcell, and I will be back often from now.Also I would like to link you in my blog, if thats not a problem.